Announcements

ILLEGAL CONTENT I'd like to just reaffirm MoDaCo's position regarding piracy and illegal content in the light of some recent questions / postings. Posts will be censored by myself or my moderation team if the contain or link to: Illegal / pirated / cracked software or sites that host such softwareNintendo emulators / ROMs or sites hosting them (in light of Nintendo's legal stance)CUSTOM ROMS You may discuss and post links to custom device ROMs on MoDaCo, provided the following rules are adhered to: ROMs must not contain any illegal 3rd party software (this includes trial versions included without permission)ROMs must give full credit to the original authorISSUES If you have any issues with this policy, please contact PaulOBrien directly via PM.

Please note that selling items on the forum directly is not allowed by the forum rules. There is a forum for eBay auctions whereby you can list the items on eBay and link to them there. This is the ONLY forum for this type of activity. You may also advertise links to the eBay forum in your signature. Please note that selling directly in contravention of these rules will result in a warning / suspension / ban.

Ideas for future ROMs

18 posts in this topic

Was thinking about the kind of developments I would personally like to see in a future 2.2 (or higher?) ROM, now that I believe the kernel source will allow more native/stable versions in future - the sort of things that as a user I wouldn't be able to simply download from the market.

Anyways, I would really like to see:

Native HID support:- I have an iGo stowaway bluetooth keyboard. Using this would be awesome. The only HID support I can see with 2.2 is the Desire with Cyanogen Mod, and the Samsung Galaxy S (

- this incidently is the exact same keyboard).

Decent Lockscreen:- none of the market options are as smooth and integrated as a stock version. I never liked the moving magnifying glass thing of Alpha 3.

I think there was another point, but I forget.

Any ideas whether these ideas could be taken forward? I'm sure there must be a host of other ideas...

Digisol

0

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

Was thinking about the kind of developments I would personally like to see in a future 2.2 (or higher?) ROM, now that I believe the kernel source will allow more native/stable versions in future - the sort of things that as a user I wouldn't be able to simply download from the market.

Anyways, I would really like to see:

Native HID support:- I have an iGo stowaway bluetooth keyboard. Using this would be awesome. The only HID support I can see with 2.2 is the Desire with Cyanogen Mod, and the Samsung Galaxy S (

- this incidently is the exact same keyboard).

Decent Lockscreen:- none of the market options are as smooth and integrated as a stock version. I never liked the moving magnifying glass thing of Alpha 3.

I think there was another point, but I forget.

Any ideas whether these ideas could be taken forward? I'm sure there must be a host of other ideas...

Digisol

You can just change the lockscreen to pin or pattern in settings. On Japanese Jellyfish it's the stock with just a slide.

0

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

Cheers Zapher - might try the pin thing. I guess what I really want to know is whether anyone is currently working on HID support for the San Fran - I can't be the only one who wishes to use a decent bluetooth keyboard (or even a mouse!)

- things that have already been developed, but are tricky/hard/impossible to use without them being compiled into the kernel, or tightly integrated into the rom -- and which are unlikely to be ever offered for the Blade, other than from the 'modding' community.

Someone did a bit of work on this for the Hero, but hasn't touched the project since last April. Since our Blade's usb chip works both ways, I'm sure it should be able to look at the state of the extra pin connection on the micro usb socket. What is involved in talking to that hardware, I am not able to even guess. But have a look at http://adq.livejournal.com/101420.html

-- Bluetooth. The Blade's Bluetooth seems to be a bit of a mess. Anyone seen a list of profiles that it supports? Even with 2.2 (Jellyfish7) it seems that pressing the headset button doesn't properly generate an 'event' for apps like Vlingo to use. This has issues for car use, voice dialling, etc. And it seems to have the Android Bluetooth bug (that causes a reboot on turning off Bluetooth after using the brilliant Vlingo). The bug is said to be fixed in Android 2.2.1 --- so when do we Blade users get that?

@MrPuddington - Dvorak keyboard free in the Market. Personally, I see no advantage in using a layout designed for the left hand's four fingers to be constantly resting on vowel keys. Although logical for a full-size keyboard, this is not much good with a tiny little duo-touch (two point) screen like the Blade's. But, hey, individual preferences...

For those suffering other keyboards (Gingerbread is pretty good, but lacks cursor control keys), try Vlingo (its free) which does an awesome job of dictation, and with a keyboard IME, you can dictate into any app ... it is amazing.

Edited 15 Jan 2011 by oh!dougal

0

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

I would love a decent 3g/2g switcher widget. The one in switchpro just brings up the settings where you change it, I want to change it just by tapping the widget. I understand this is due to something in Android but maybe a ROM builder can get round this?

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

Iam creating a new Mod for the zte blade. I have taken some of your wishes in consideration when creating the mod. It currently has the following features:

Lockscreen (Standard 2.2 with following functions/settings)

Music Controls

Hide Carrier

Hide Clock

Hide date

Hide status (Charging, etc)

Enable/Disable Unlocking with menu-button

Statusbar

Display/Hide Power widget

Buttons

Long press back kills foregroundapp

Change song with volume down/up when the device is "sleeping".

Quiet-Hours:

[*]Enable/Disable Quiet Hours

[*]Start/Stop time

[*]Mute vibrations

[*]Mute notifications

Ive would appreciate if you had more suggestions for features to be included in the mod.

Expect the mod to be released in a few days. It currently needs some more testing. It seems stable i have used it daily for the last week. But it has some small bugs and security issues that needs to be fixed before releasing it.

Sincerly 0x90

0

Share this post

Link to post

Share on other sites

@MrPuddington - Dvorak keyboard free in the Market. Personally, I see no advantage in using a layout designed for the left hand's four fingers to be constantly resting on vowel keys. Although logical for a full-size keyboard, this is not much good with a tiny little duo-touch (two point) screen like the Blade's. But, hey, individual preferences...

Fair enough, but it is what I know and what I am used to. I imagine it would work quite well with Swype, but I have no way of testing it (or convincing Swype to try it). I would be just as happy with the keys in alphabetic order.

Nice to see that using a Bluetooth keyboard is possible. I will give that a try.